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Apple Releases macOS High Sierra With Apple File System, Safari Autoplay Blocking and Privacy Tools, Metal 2, and More

Russell L said:
I have two separate 2TB drives (spinning HD, HFS+) attached to my MBP that have all my music files on them. (They’re used by iTunes and Audirvana Plus.) Will they be OK with my newly APFS-formatted MBP?
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Yes. High Sierra will be perfectly happy pulling files from either APFS or HFS+. It speaks both. :)
 
BWhaler said:
I fear you’ll be waiting a long time my friend. Word for some time is the Air is basically EOL—but still for sale mostly for education market and to have a response to the Chrome.

The next generation Air, with better front carera and new form factor is the MacBook. Yes, it’s also more expensive.

(I think Apple updated the Air CPU this year only as a response to the growing storm that Apple was selling “brand new” computers with components from 3+ years ago. This allowed the clock to reset on the Air, albeit with a half-hearted update.

My guess is at some point you’ll either have to move to the MacBook/MBP line or perhaps the iPad line will be good enough for your needs at some point?

Either way, best of luck.
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Well, exactly my thought. Me and my family nearly switched entirely to using an iPad. But as grown up with G4 Powerbooks, G5 iMacs or some entry level MacBook Pros I somehow still had to own a Mac.

But the current pricing for the latest Pros is so off the roof (same as iPhone X or iPad Pro), I‘m not going to support this. Hence only the choices you replied to are left...or sticking to iOS...
 
Mike MA said:
I‘m out of support. Until Apple will finally provide a new form factor for the ten year old MacBook Air or will upgrade the ridicolous iSight camera in the current MacBook, I have to stick with Sierra....
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Which machine? Late 2010 MacBook Air in your sig is supported.

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I see someone has already pointed that out.
 
Downloaded. Installed. No problems. As always (for last 8 yrs and counting). Thank you.
 
Bollockser said:
On 2009 MacPro 4,1 > 5,1
After I download the placeholder, the installer starts by saying firmware update is needed.
Is there any way I can get the full installer file without having to go through any part of the installation process?
I want to make a USB stick but I do not want to install this on my MacPro or mess with the firmware.
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Just grab it in the applications folder before starting the installation process
 
Success on a MBP Mid 2012. Seems sluggish for now, even after rebooting, but it's probably rebuilding caches and indexes or something.
 
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My install is stuck on progress bar where it says ”calculating time left” first time i had problem and my backup disk is far away for next week
 
I installed on my iMac mid 2010 with normal HD (not SSD).
I installed from usb from zero, I formatted my HD on APFS filesystem, everything is working fine .
So the new filesystem is working also with regular HD ?!
 
My first MacOS upgrade ever. Fingers crossed, and see you on the other side...

/edit - no problems. :)
 
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Does anybody know what the process is to roll back to macos Sierra? I note that the download for that file has disappeared from the App Store...
 
Brenster said:
Late-2011 MacBook Pro here but similar vintage. Had in-place upgrades or Migration Assistant moves going all the way back to my eMac G4 on Jaguar (OSX 10.2). Really must try one of these wipe-and-reinstall things one of these years.
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I am on O X/macOs since 10.0b and never reinstalled, just installed in place, had few problems which were always fixed in a later release or I fixed it myself.

Long story short, no need to reinstall.

mschmalenbach said:
Does anybody know what the process is to roll back to macos Sierra? I note that the download for that file has disappeared from the App Store...
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There no easy way, can be done though but it's no easy task.

teobilly said:
I installed on my iMac mid 2010 with normal HD (not SSD).
I installed from usb from zero, I formatted my HD on APFS filesystem, everything is working fine .
So the new filesystem is working also with regular HD ?!
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Yes,it also works on Hd's, so the article is wrong.
 
Q: the new file system works on SSDs but not spinning hard drives. Can I continue to use my spinning hard drive to do time machine backups of my computer’s SSD? In addition to the time machine backup, I also just batch copy all my files onto another non-solid state drive - will that still work?
 
SamVilde said:
Q: the new file system works on SSDs but not spinning hard drives. Can I continue to use my spinning hard drive to do time machine backups of my computer’s SSD? In addition to the time machine backup, I also just batch copy all my files onto another non-solid state drive - will that still work?
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Yes... that will still work fine.
 
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Martyimac said:
Working just fine.
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Nice. I have the same machine (6 core) with 32GB of RAM. Good to hear it's working fine. I'm in between video projects , just need to check that all my plugins work in High Sierra before I take the plunge. Thanks for the reply.
 
Quick and relatively painless install (had to upgrade Lacie Raid Manager to see my Lacie Raid Drive). Must say that it all looks and feels pretty much the same. Almost like no upgrade at all except for photos.
 
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